Lowell J Soike: 2 books
Necessary Courage
Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding state. To its west was the Kansas-Nebraska...
Busy in the Cause
Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of...